CVE-2011-2205
N/A
Published: June 22, 2011 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorProsody
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Prosody before 0.8.1 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/44852Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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